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That is a terrific response Pastor Hall. Thank you for writing it.
I recently sent the following letter to Bishop Wright, in response to his recent editorial in the Times regarding the actions of General Convention (can be retrieved at http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/guest_contributors/article...
It takes real bollocks to say something like this, and I applaud you for it. I'd rather have a smaller, more committed church doing powerful things than a club full of people who have no idea what they're in it for. THANK you!!
Well said.
Don't expect people to be overly greatful to you for saying this over on HoB/D.
Sometimes the best critics are the ones drowning in what they critique. Lily certainly fits that bill. She does have a sharp wit about her though. Hopefully she doesn't go the way of Winehouse...
For Episcopalians of all stripes who are interested in the Emerging conversation and reside in the Diocese of Texas
Comment Wall (12 comments)
- At 7:51am on May 29, 2008,
Kelly Koonce said… - Ha! The picture is courtesy of the little built-in camera on my MacBook - the result of an "I-don't-have-a-picture-of-myself-but-I-need-something-for-my-Anglimergent-page" moment. Although I did choose the black and white setting as I was feeling a bit artsy.
- At 10:51pm on May 11, 2008,
Jason Haddox said… - Patrick,
AMAZING question for the candidates! I can't wait to hear what the responses are. (Other than looks of sheer terror...)
- At 9:22am on May 10, 2008,
Jimmy Bartz said… - I find it articulate and concise, and if I were a candidate, a little intimidating. I look forward to hearing the responses.
- At 10:46am on April 8, 2008,
Jimmy Bartz said…
- Sorry, dude. Forgot to call you back. I will give you a buzz when I leave the office to go to Jas' parent teacher conference.
- At 1:10pm on March 28, 2008,
Karen Ward said… - Great!, and we will be an active partner.
We could use some funds to buy a 'real' communion set. I've always wanted one with 2 chalices silver plated from Almy. Our only other partner church in Seattle made us an altar, as before for 4 years, all we had was a tiny cafe table, so now we have a 'rea'l altar when we want to use one, but we will do funky stuff, like for Easter season we are using a coffee table.
We are also seeking funds to help us fund a part time music director position by fall.
- At 1:27pm on March 25, 2008,
Karen Ward said…
- Okay, we are in need of financial sponsorship more than anything.
A dream sponsorship is two year pledge of $ 6,000 per year in mission support. ($ 500 a month or 1,500 per quarter). For our part, we send you quarterly update of our mission, occasional gifts we make (like music CDs) and we can host any visitors from your community who come up for a mission trip of some sort and advise you on anything we may have skills in and share our ideas for innovation of all sorts + other relational things that just seem happen once a partnership is established.
We need about 5 of such sponsoring congregations for the next two years and we only have one. We aim to become a parish within 2-3 years from now. We need help until we reach this level.
Would this be doable for you? If not such a monthly pledge, then taking a special offering for us can also work.
We dream of having such partners... as it is challenging being an emerging generations Episcopal church plant made up of mostly poor students.
- At 9:44am on March 19, 2008,
Karen Ward said…
- Patrick, I read your profile. I've not met you in 'real' space yet, but I want to, as you rawk!
Might Holy Spirit up to partner with a wild Seattle mission?
We as have low stability and high passion to swap!
- At 8:20am on March 18, 2008,
Jimmy Bartz said…
- We've got to give Newt a break. He's totally enmeshed with you know who. I think he digs the red hat
- At 3:32pm on March 17, 2008,
Jimmy Bartz said…
- please change your profile picture. please. newton is threatening gnome action.
- At 11:27pm on March 10, 2008,
Greg Rickel said… - Patrick!! How goes it?? Great to see you! Glad you are on board here!
Greg
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- Your Anglican Church Body Affiliation (CofE, TEC, AMiA...) - Leave blank if not applicable
- The Episcopal Church USA
- Your Diocese
- Texas
- Your City
- Houston, TX
- Your Parish
- Holy Spirit Episcopal Church
- Your parish website
- http://www.hsechurch.org
- Your Anglican 'Species'
- Priest
- Your 'Day Job'
- Associate at an aged suburban parish with high stability, low passion, and nice people.
- What you do for fun and re-creation?
- Play and sing wherever I can get away with it. Write songs. Dream of getting off the "parish priest" conveyor belt, and doing some kind of ministry that makes my colleagues at clergy conference really nervous.
- What do you see as some of the biggest challenges facing Anglicans today?
- (GLOBAL) Not melting down into a festering stew of bullshit liberal/conservative North/South partisan anger.
(GLOBAL) Getting lean and mean by dropping the baggage of rigid Victorian clericalism.
(LOCAL) Moving our people out of the "Pledge Cards 'n Sundays" model of church, and into the kingdom habits and Spiritual disciplines of Jesus.
(ALWAYS AND EVERYWHERE) Expecting nothing less than whole-life discipleship from ourselves and our people
- What do you see as some of the biggest opportunities for Anglicans today?
- Becoming a credible example of real partnership across the Global North/South gap
Grabbing hold of our unsung legacy as a holiness church with genuine ancient roots (see Wesley/Taylor et al)
Become a thriving institutional resource with some real experience in the muddy middle for emergents everywhere
- What do you want Anglimergent to be? and what other Anglimergent resources, gatherings, activities or events would you find helpful for your ministry?
- A place to connect, a place to conversate, a place to rejoice, a place to send ideas to ruminate, a place to ask for and solicit prayer. NOT a place to swap trite formulas, NOT a place to shop "best practices," NOT a place to be contemptuous about others who "aren't on our band wagon" (I do that enough as it is).
Patrick Hall's Blog
Open Letter to Bishop Tom Wright
I recently sent the following letter to Bishop Wright, in response to his recent editorial in the Times regarding the actions of General Convention (can be retrieved at http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/guest_contributors/article6710640.ece)
Dear Bishop Wright,
My name is Patrick Hall and I am a twenty-seven year old priest serving in the Diocese of Texas. Your books have changed everything about my journey with Jesus - You have helped me think more clearly about the f… Continue
Dear Bishop Wright,
My name is Patrick Hall and I am a twenty-seven year old priest serving in the Diocese of Texas. Your books have changed everything about my journey with Jesus - You have helped me think more clearly about the f… Continue
Posted on July 24, 2009 at 11:12am — 1 Comment
Future Church and Real Discourse
"These days we get the Gossip Girl version of the bildungsroman, in which the portrait of the artist as a young woman equals crotch shots on Egotastic."
Every now and then, I read something I fervently wish I'd written. I found this jewel yesterday, while waiting on an ill-fated plane flight from Dallas to Montgomery, in the pages of July's GQ (don't judge me. The writing is sharp, I swear). Initially infatuated with it because of my intense love for everything literary and enigmatic, th… Continue
Every now and then, I read something I fervently wish I'd written. I found this jewel yesterday, while waiting on an ill-fated plane flight from Dallas to Montgomery, in the pages of July's GQ (don't judge me. The writing is sharp, I swear). Initially infatuated with it because of my intense love for everything literary and enigmatic, th… Continue
Posted on June 15, 2009 at 11:48pm — 2 Comments
A Box Seder
Friends,
Here at Holy Spirit we are doing something different for Maundy Thursday. We have asked our parishioners to take the day off from their usual labors, whether work or recreation, and band together as a parish to spend a day serving the community around us. Two laymen in our parish have coordinated a number of service projects within a five mile radius of our church, and we are dispatching volunteer teams to spend the day serving in those locations. We now have close to 300 volunteers en… Continue
Here at Holy Spirit we are doing something different for Maundy Thursday. We have asked our parishioners to take the day off from their usual labors, whether work or recreation, and band together as a parish to spend a day serving the community around us. Two laymen in our parish have coordinated a number of service projects within a five mile radius of our church, and we are dispatching volunteer teams to spend the day serving in those locations. We now have close to 300 volunteers en… Continue
Posted on April 7, 2009 at 3:30pm —
Polemic and the Holy Spirit: An Inverse relationship
I've been more tuned into the Communion conversation lately, just because Lambeth is looming so large on our collective radar screens. Generally ribald partisanship makes me so angry that it can take me off the course of my Spiritual formation. So I strenuously ignore all cable news, all blogs both ecclesiastical and political. I have prided myself on being profoundly ignorant about the "latest developments" in the "current crisis" in the Anglican Communion. But against my better judgment, my cu… Continue
Posted on August 2, 2008 at 3:35pm — 4 Comments
The Undercover Miracle of Forgiveness
What follows is an article by Christiane Amanpour for cnn.com. I wonder whether her portrayal of Kagame is not a little rosy. But the story itself is the Kingdom at work. It can be retrieved at http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/05/15/amanpour.rwanda/index.html
What does Macy's have to do with healing from genocide? Nothing and everything.
Fourteen years after Hutu extremists killed between 800,000 and 1 million people -- mostly Tutsis -- in a devastating slaughter, Rwandan women are… Continue
What does Macy's have to do with healing from genocide? Nothing and everything.
Fourteen years after Hutu extremists killed between 800,000 and 1 million people -- mostly Tutsis -- in a devastating slaughter, Rwandan women are… Continue
Posted on May 15, 2008 at 1:09pm —
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